disability Flashcards
The Medical Model - Disability
Sees disability as a medical problem focusing on the limitations caused by the impairment. Leads to ‘victim-blaming’ mentality where the problem lies with the disabled individual, rather than with a society who has not met their needs.
Shakespeare - Disability
Disabled people are often socialised into seeing themselves as victims and may accept this victim mentality because they can use this as an excuse for their failure.
The Social Model - Disability
Barriers- focuses on the social and physical barriers to inclusion that might exist such as the design of buildings or discriminatory attitudes. Increasingly, social spaces are taking into account disabilities - still long way to go.
Ridley - Disability
A comedian who suffers from cerebral palsy asked does disability make you feel awkward. Less than 1/5 of people have disabilities from birth, Ridley calls the other 4/5 ‘not yet disabled’ because being able-bodied for life is not a guarantee.
Scope.org.uk - Disability
To remedy the fact people feel awkward when talking to a disabled person.
Barnes - Disability
The media may create and reinforce an i identity through portraying disabled people in a stereotyped way. Representations of disability in an oppressive and negative way. Seen as in need of pity (Sia’s autistic film ‘Music’), victims (Wonder film), villains (The Joker), a burden (Little Britain - Andy faking disability), sexually abnormal (undateables), rarely seen as ‘normal’.
Gill - Disability
When people become disabled later in life - they used to feel pity for this group and now they are that group - this can lead to ‘learned helplessness’, where disabled people internalise the idea that they are incapable so fail to take action for themselves.
Murugami - Disability
Says a disabled person has the ability to construct a self identity that accepts their impairments but is independent of it. Disability is a part of identity not the main feature.
Scrambler - Disability
Rise of hate- media says they are workshy, scroungers, a burden, need to look at disability in a positive way as a result of rise of hate.
Oliver - Disability
Official definitions attached to disability needs to become positive to change people’s assumptions.